When Todd Rehrig and his wife, Heather, first became aware in late January of a proposed data center near their home in Lower Mount Bethel Township, they felt such information shouldn’t stay hidden.
So they organized, starting a Facebook group and marshaling their neighbors into what would become No Data Center LMBT in February, two months before developers of a data center held a town hall to discuss their plans.
As data center proposals pop up across the Lehigh Valley in eastern Pennsylvania, residents are organizing in opposition. But they’re not just voicing concerns at township meetings. They’re launching websites, disseminating petitions, even raising funds to support legal challenges to the plans…